MORE REASONS TO BE THANKFUL

There is quite a lot to be thankful for this year. On the home front, everyone is as healthy as they were last year at this time and doing well. Governments in our metropolitan area are seeing shortfalls, as usual. But, we just consider who is running them. Overall, the economy looks good here. Unemployment, even here in the center of the so called rust belt, is way down now.

Of course, we're thankful that the Republicans kept the executive and legislative branches in Washington. Not because we like them all and everything they do, understand. But, consider the socialist alternative.

We are grateful that the Republicans won simply because this now gives us "one stop shopping" for the liberty oriented laws we want passed and enforced. And yes, we expect the Bush administration to continue reining in the regulatory bureaucracy. Along with that, we expect to see justices and judges nominated who believe the judiciary should uphold the Constitution, as written, rather than legislating from the bench as the liberals have been doing.

You bet we were thankful to see Slick Willy and his devious spouse back in the news again, too. That is necessary, lest voters forget just how conniving these Democrats can be when they control a branch of government.

The new Clinton Lie-brary made its own type of news this month. First, the thing looks like a huge doublewide on stilts (a hillbilly high-rise?) would look if the installers forgot to install the bay windows. Some of the inside displays, we are told, are little more than socialist and criminal propaganda attacking Republicans. In other words, the joint is typical Clinton inside and out.

Oh, and yes we have asked if Monica's kneepads and blue dress were on display in there someplace but did not get an answer yet. Perhaps we will have better luck if many of us start asking. . . . .

We are also thankful that the likes of James Carville, Eleanor Clift and Hillary Clinton are still around to remind us of how they manipulated the news during the crass Clinton years.

Hillary seems to already be chomping at the bit for the 2008 presidential race. Lately she was even professing to be a "conservative evangelical," whatever that may be. Let her dream. Sixty million Americans will be pulling back on the reins connected to her bit, all yelling a collective "Whoa, Nelly! You ain't going there."

We are even thankful for the anti-American, anti-Christian socialists filing lawsuits against Christmas, God, the Boy Scouts and the whole of our American heritage. That low rumble we hear in the background around the nation is the real Americans of every nationality, religion, race and creed getting ready to join together in action against those who do not believe in "One Nation Under God."

Any atheist with a questions about how our government was intended need only read the 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation[1] by a man who was the President of the Constitutional Convention and first President of our United States. If they still do not get an idea of how religion fits in with our life here, perhaps they are living in the wrong country.

We are also thankful to hear that Dan (make up the news as you go along) Rather is (fired) stepping down finally. That's a start. Tom Brokaw is leaving soon, too. That's two down and thirty to forty to go.

We are also thankful that California-based Move America Forward[2] wants the United Nations' New York headquarters shut down and its officials kicked out of our country. "The UN has become an apologist and defender of terrorist organizations and their agents," claims their 60-second commercial. They also cite the oil for food scandal. "It's time we sent a message to the UN: We are not going to tolerate your conduct anymore. We tell other countries not to harbor organizations that support terrorists, why then do we harbor the UN here in America?", the group correctly reasons.

Of course, the UN ran Saddam's Oil for Food program for many years. We're thankful to see that our public officials now see some of the resulting corruption -- and how so many UN employees suddenly became millionaires.

Congressional hearings continue looking into that scandal-ridden Oil-for-Food program and more evidence keeps popping-up, proving that Saddam was able to funnel more than $21 billion away from the food and medicine program into the pockets of UN criminals and various assorted terrorists.

"In essence, the Hussein regime created a system of kickbacks, as we have heard today, skimming schemes and smuggling operations to bilk the international sanctions regime of all its potential value and profits," Juan Carlos Zarate, an assistant secretary at the Treasury Department, told lawmakers last week. Saddam used much of the money to pay for his palaces and buy new weapons. And, of course, to bribe UN officials.

Also at the UN, officials working in the Congo have been accused of repeated rape, pedophilia and prostitution. This time, there is photographic and video evidence for some of the allegations.

Maybe next year we can say we are thankful to see that the corrupt and decrepit UN was permanently kicked out of our country.

Unemployment is down.

Consider the socialist alternative of Republicans.

We expect the Bush administration to continue reining in the regulatory bureaucracy.

We expect judges nominated who believe the judiciary should uphold the Constitution.

The new Clinton Lie-brary is typical Clinton.

Monica's kneepads and blue dress are missing. 8<)

To Hillary in 2008: "Whoa, Nelly! You ain't going there."

That low rumble is real Americans readying to act against those who do not believe in "One Nation Under God."

If they still do not get an idea of how religion fits in with our life here, perhaps they are living in the wrong country.

Dan and Tom are out. That's two down and thirty to forty to go.

The UN has become an apologist and defender of terrorist organizations and their agents and must be booted out.

The UN ran Saddam's Oil for Food program for many years. Many became millionaires.

UN officials working in the Congo have been accused of repeated rape, pedophilia and prostitution. There is video evidence.

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